From: Hannes Laimer <h.laimer@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH manager/network/proxmox{-ve-rs,-perl-rs} 0/6] sdn: add BGP fabric
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:10:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260327151031.149360-1-h.laimer@proxmox.com> (raw)
This patch series adds BGP as a third fabric protocol alongside OpenFabric
and OSPF. It targets eBGP unnumbered underlays where each node has a unique
ASN and peers over physical interfaces without IP assignment on fabric links.
## eBGP underlay
Each node gets its own ASN (e.g. 65001, 65002, 65003) and peers with its
neighbors using 'remote-as external' on unnumbered interfaces. The fabric
peer-group is named after the fabric ID and uses BFD when enabled.
## EVPN overlay
When the EVPN controller references a BGP fabric, the overlay sessions run
as eBGP too. The node's fabric ASN becomes the 'router bgp' process ASN.
Since every node has a different ASN, auto-derived route targets would differ
per node, so the EVPN controller ASN is used via 'autort as' to produce
uniform RTs. This relies on a patch we ship with our frr, upstream
reference: [1]. Two additional flags are enabled:
'bestpath as-path multipath-relax' for ECMP across different ASNs, and
'disable-ebgp-connected-route-check' for loopback-based VTEP peers.
An iBGP overlay using 'local-as' was considered but rejected due to a
limitation in how FRR handles hop limits. See the EVPN commit message for
details.
## Single BGP process
Unlike OSPF and OpenFabric which have their own FRR protocol blocks, BGP
fabric config must coexist with the EVPN BGP config in one 'router bgp'
instance. The fabric generates its own BgpRouter and merges it into the
existing one via merge_fabric(), appending neighbor groups and address
families without overwriting the EVPN settings.
Thanks a lot @Stefan for the base of this series!
[1] https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/issues/17945
proxmox-ve-rs:
Hannes Laimer (1):
sdn: fabric: add BGP protocol support
proxmox-frr/src/ser/bgp.rs | 66 +++++
proxmox-frr/src/ser/mod.rs | 1 +
proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/frr.rs | 258 ++++++++++++++++-
proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/mod.rs | 100 +++++++
.../src/sdn/fabric/section_config/fabric.rs | 22 ++
.../src/sdn/fabric/section_config/mod.rs | 19 ++
.../src/sdn/fabric/section_config/node.rs | 21 ++
.../sdn/fabric/section_config/protocol/bgp.rs | 266 ++++++++++++++++++
.../sdn/fabric/section_config/protocol/mod.rs | 1 +
.../tests/fabric/cfg/bgp_default/fabrics.cfg | 17 ++
.../fabric/cfg/bgp_ipv6_only/fabrics.cfg | 17 ++
proxmox-ve-config/tests/fabric/main.rs | 58 ++++
.../snapshots/fabric__bgp_default_pve.snap | 28 ++
.../snapshots/fabric__bgp_default_pve1.snap | 27 ++
.../snapshots/fabric__bgp_ipv6_only_pve.snap | 29 ++
.../snapshots/fabric__bgp_ipv6_only_pve1.snap | 28 ++
16 files changed, 955 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/src/sdn/fabric/section_config/protocol/bgp.rs
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/fabric/cfg/bgp_default/fabrics.cfg
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/fabric/cfg/bgp_ipv6_only/fabrics.cfg
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/fabric/snapshots/fabric__bgp_default_pve.snap
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/fabric/snapshots/fabric__bgp_default_pve1.snap
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/fabric/snapshots/fabric__bgp_ipv6_only_pve.snap
create mode 100644 proxmox-ve-config/tests/fabric/snapshots/fabric__bgp_ipv6_only_pve1.snap
proxmox-perl-rs:
Hannes Laimer (2):
sdn: fabrics: add BGP config generation
sdn: fabrics: add BGP status endpoints
pve-rs/src/bindings/sdn/fabrics.rs | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
pve-rs/src/sdn/status.rs | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
pve-network:
Hannes Laimer (2):
sdn: fabrics: register bgp as a fabric protocol type
sdn: evpn: support eBGP EVPN over BGP fabric underlay
src/PVE/Network/SDN/Controllers/EvpnPlugin.pm | 40 ++++++++-
src/PVE/Network/SDN/Fabrics.pm | 18 +++-
.../bgp_fabric/expected_controller_config | 73 ++++++++++++++++
.../evpn/bgp_fabric/expected_sdn_interfaces | 56 ++++++++++++
src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_fabric/interfaces | 6 ++
src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_fabric/sdn_config | 85 +++++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_fabric/expected_controller_config
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_fabric/expected_sdn_interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_fabric/interfaces
create mode 100644 src/test/zones/evpn/bgp_fabric/sdn_config
pve-manager:
Hannes Laimer (1):
ui: sdn: add BGP fabric support
www/manager6/Makefile | 3 ++
www/manager6/sdn/FabricsView.js | 12 +++++
www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/NodeEdit.js | 1 +
www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/bgp/FabricEdit.js | 52 +++++++++++++++++++
.../sdn/fabrics/bgp/InterfacePanel.js | 15 ++++++
www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/bgp/NodeEdit.js | 32 ++++++++++++
6 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/bgp/FabricEdit.js
create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/bgp/InterfacePanel.js
create mode 100644 www/manager6/sdn/fabrics/bgp/NodeEdit.js
Summary over all repositories:
30 files changed, 1548 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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next reply other threads:[~2026-03-27 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-27 15:10 Hannes Laimer [this message]
2026-03-27 15:10 ` [PATCH proxmox-ve-rs 1/1] sdn: fabric: add BGP protocol support Hannes Laimer
2026-03-27 15:10 ` [PATCH proxmox-perl-rs 1/2] sdn: fabrics: add BGP config generation Hannes Laimer
2026-03-27 15:10 ` [PATCH proxmox-perl-rs 2/2] sdn: fabrics: add BGP status endpoints Hannes Laimer
2026-03-27 15:10 ` [PATCH pve-network 1/2] sdn: fabrics: register bgp as a fabric protocol type Hannes Laimer
2026-03-27 15:10 ` [PATCH pve-network 2/2] sdn: evpn: support eBGP EVPN over BGP fabric underlay Hannes Laimer
2026-03-27 15:10 ` [PATCH pve-manager 1/1] ui: sdn: add BGP fabric support Hannes Laimer
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